A record and run through of the making of the fuse.
Design goals:
Must look like a heli seen in the sky else no point.
Must be light as possible and flyable at the weight.
Must not create annoying body resonance, tail rotor noise as low as possible, accepting that fin wind noise will exist.
Must be easy to build and fit.
Must not use difficult to get parts.
Must not take forever to print.
Must be reasonably strong and take some knocks without breaking up.
Tail motor remove/replace easily.
etc etc.
Drawing software was Onshape ... equally as fantastic as frustrating for someone like me who does not have the years of discipline in using it. Still, for free use if you don't mind all your files being in their public domain, it certainly saves of lot of money!
Material to use.. light weight pla .. Used here is eSun lwpla ... reasonable cost and has worked well. Used at 245C allowing 50% extrusion rate.
Printed on an older creality printer, so no special printer properties required. Simplify3D used here.
Printed using a 0.8mm nozzle.
All prints at 0.2mm layer height, 0.78mm width, and 2600mm/min speed, and full speed cooling fan.
Vertical vase/outline mode, except where a mix is used at certain print heights.
i.e boom printed first 25mm normal mode with 40% infill and from thereon vase mode. Nose print first 45mm vase mode, then normal mode 40% infill so that nose tip gets printed smoothly.
Achieved by using two processes, setting individual start
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